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  1. Re:This might alienate anti-ISI* Muslims. on US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat · · Score: 1

    I suppose you mean combatants who do not qualify for POW status, in which case you are wrong. GC art 3 states that they should be "treated humanely" and given sentences by a regularly constituted court.
    Thus, you can't "do anything to them".

  2. Re:Hollywood overlords on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Is a Free Man Again · · Score: 2

    They never committed "international piracy" you dingbat. They created a search engine.

  3. ½mile == 1km? on Mars Orbiter Beams Back Images of Comet's Surprisingly Tiny Nucleus · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "about half a mile or one kilometer"? Could they make up their mind? Or are they actually suggesting that ½mile == 1km?

  4. Re:How about protecting the public on Piracy Police Chief Calls For State Interference To Stop Internet "Anarchy" · · Score: 1

    Oh ffs. Why is this modded funny and not insightful?

  5. Blatant slashvertisement on Netropolitan Is a Facebook For the Affluent, and It's Only $9000 To Join · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is this what it's come to on Slashdot? Perhaps it's time to leave.

    Anyone know any good alternatives?

  6. How does that add up? on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    I pay >$500/yr today. For slow internet with ads.

    Where do I sign up?

  7. Re:De-americanization has officially began on Germany Scores First: Ends Verizon Contract Over NSA Concerns · · Score: 1

    You're making too much damn sense to be on slashdot. Are you a troll?

  8. By all means on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    Let's fuck up already fucked-up persons more. Way to go civilized society.

    Someone stop the world, I want to get off here.

  9. Re:Duplicity. on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there must be something I'm missing in your reasoning.
    How do you make sure that the files on the "other side" are not read by anyone? Sounds like you just transfer the files (presumably using rsync over ssh) and leave them plain on the remote server. With duplicity, the encryption and decryption is all handled on the client side.

  10. Re:Duplicity. on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    Sounds nice. I'll have to try that.

  11. Duplicity. on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    What, noone mentioned duplicity yet?
    http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

  12. Re:Schizophrenia on Another Possible Voynich Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Huh? The statement "Schizophrenia is not orthogonal to intelligence" does not say that schizophrenia == intelligence (while your own statement says that schizophrenia != intelligence), it says that just because someone is schizophrenic it does not mean that they're not intelligent.

  13. Re:If this argument had any legal standing on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Why would they do that when it hasn't even come to the courts yet? This is about the prosecutor wanting to conduct an interview in Sweden, and refusing to go outside Sweden to do the interview.

  14. Re:Extradition from Sweden is easier on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    Yeah. But then there's this:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    'Padilla was held for three and a half years as an "enemy combatant."'

    Although to give you the benefit of the doubt, I don't know what you meant by "speedy".

  15. Re:Internal politics? on Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him In the UK · · Score: 1

    "Assange is avoiding ARREST"

    Well, technically, he's avoiding a hearing on Swedish soil, which really isn't a criminal offense.

  16. Re:Who cares? on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 0

    I care.

    Who's paying for the bandwidth the ads use up? Probably not Mozilla.
    What if your connection has a bandwidth cap or you pay per MB for traffic?

  17. Re:They don't know if it wasn't there on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right. I didn't really consider that they'd never actually seen it before.

    Although one would think that people would think twice when picking and eating mushrooms they have never seen before...

    Oh well, people have done things way more stupid than that before.

  18. Re:RIP on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Those ads have to come from somewhere not local to the workstation FF is running on. That means that they eat bandwidth. What if you have a bandwith cap? What if you have to pay for each MB of traffic?

    If they do this, its bye-bye FF for me :(

  19. Re:Typo? on A Dedicated Shell For Git Commands · · Score: 1

    I really think it "glitch".

  20. People don't know this? on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 2

    The Death Cap is something I learned as a child not to touch, and I teach my kids that too. It's pretty common where I live to learn which things in nature are edible and what to watch out for. I had the impression most people around the world had that kind of education "built in". Is that not the case in the US these days?

  21. Re:so..what will the future bring? on Pirate Bay Block Lifted In the Netherlands · · Score: 1

    Everyone is already a criminal. It's just a matter of finding what crime they're guilty of.

  22. What about the effects to humans? on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    What frequency and power is this? Standing in front of a real radar transmitter is basically like cramming yourself into a microwave oven and hitting the power switch. Not so healthy. And he's basically saying that "It's a small radar transmitter"

  23. Re:forcing them to cutoff access? on European Parliament Culls Public Wi-Fi Access After Email Hack · · Score: 0

    You're way to gullible.
    "Indefinitely" in political terms is more or less equivalent to "permanently".

  24. Re:3DMark cheats, so no wonder it is cheated on Futuremark Delists Samsung and HTC Android Devices for Cheating 3DMark · · Score: 1

    "He had a different name for it; he mentioned it frequently."
    Really? Sounds more like you misunderstanding what he meant.

    "You just aren't up on reading comprehension for the stupidest of the Apple Haters."
    Apple hater? Sounds more like your own reading comprehension skills could use a bit of attention.

  25. Re:3DMark cheats, so no wonder it is cheated on Futuremark Delists Samsung and HTC Android Devices for Cheating 3DMark · · Score: 0

    "That is an incredibly ignorant statement. iOS has been since the beginning chock full of battery life optimizations"
    Where did he mention iOS/iPhone? He could be comparing two Android phones, you know...

    So, to paraphrase yourself: "That is an incredibly ignorant statement.".